Low Sunday, the Sunday after Easter, was once called Sunday in White because on that day the newly baptised laid aside their white robes. In the early church Easter and Whitsun were the set times for baptism, and converts wore white garments for a whole week afterwards. The robes were then put away in the church, which gave the day its Latin name, Dominica in Albis.
Sunday in White
7 days after Easter · England
No longer kept
on Low Sunday, (the Sunday after Easter,) after which time they were laid up in some repository of the church, from whence arose the term Dominica in Albis, or Sunday in White.
From Taylor's Antiquitates Curiosae, 2nd ed., p. 30. Read the original
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